About Me

A New Yorker relocated to Florida. I have fifteen years in the IT industry, with stints in product management, database management, application programming... I've been a CIO, a consultant, a software evangelist... one of these days I'll write up a proper profile.

WinFS VideosA couple of readers have asked for more background, but not too technical... the first link is very non technical. The second not quite so much.A Splashy DemoMSDN Channel 9 Interview

Google to Release Enhanced ToolbarJuan Carlos Perez, IDG News, Monday, January 30, 2006Google today plans to release an improved test version of its browser toolbar whose functionality can be extended with custom buttons. With these buttons, users can search Web sites directly from the new Google Toolbar 4 Beta. The buttons can also be used to link to Web sites and display syndicated feeds.

Great Riches for You!Excellent parody of Nigerian 419 scammers by Jim Rapoza of eWeek. IT professionals will wish their users could understand.

Friday, February 03, 2006

News - VMWare Expected To Distribute GSX Server For Free

Reported by Ed Oswald in BetaNews. If true, definitely a big plus for developers, especially if Vista can be installed and run safely in a virtual machine. Virtualization is tremendously useful. I had seen several reports regarding installing Windows Vista beta 1 in VMWare. Here is one example.